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As a freelancer I invoice in multiple currencies, and I couldn't find a program to generate them that wasn't an overly complex $100/mo SaaS. So I build a little cli to generate my invoices. 100 loc and super simple. I miss the 70s when programming was the default way to solve problems. Excessive abstractions and proprietary software often slow us down.
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Sometimes I go through the old screenshots and get nostalgic as the oldest are 10 years already.
I spend so much time of my life on my computer, so why not take photos of it?
It's hard to explain what it is. Think personal knowledge manager text editor inspired by Acme. The readme and video there are very outdated, I add features faster than I update that (as the only user this is what I get). I post videos of new features on twitter though, as a reminder to myself of where I passed through
I made a small tool that takes a screenshot all 5 minutes and stores it in a password protected zip file, but only if something has changed on screen. Sometimes I go through the old screenshots and get nostalgic as the oldest are 10 years already. I spend so much time of my life on my computer, so why not take photos of it?
I have written a lot of software, but each one is done as a full-fat production library (most are SPM modules). They are of top-shelf Quality, and fully open to all.
I'm my best (and only) customer, for most (if not all) of them.
That's actually fine, with me. Publishing them, the way that I do, ensures they are "fugheddaboudit" quality, so I don't have to be worrying about my dependencies, and I reuse them, in lots of shipping stuff.
You can find links to all of them, in a couple of the orgs I manage on GH: https://github.com/ChrisMarshallNY#here-on-github
[It does speak to a time where people create something they truly are passionate about but may not fit into the typical optimization of PMF, growth etc.]
Yes. I made two recently. - TalkToYoutuber[1]: Download the transcripts from a youtube channel and hook it up to gtp4 with RAG to let me "talk" to youtubers. There's a bunch of youtubers who have useful knowledge to share, but no blog or wiki, so semantic searching their video transcripts is the next best thing. - YoutubeThumbnailSearch[2] - Embded all of a youtube channels thumbnails using CLIP and search them using…
Something like talktoyoutuber would also be very useful for certain discord servers. They'll have a lot of knowledge on something but will gatekeep it with "just use the search." and they'll refuse to build a wiki or really engage in any kind of organization.
Ultimately, I want to make a tool where you can plug in any arbitrary document store/scraper to an LLM with RAG. But I think we are still not there yet in terms of all purpose scrapers.
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That's obviously not what they meant. I think they're more referring to several decades ago when someone had a software need they wouldn't get some off the shelf proprietary tool that costs $$$$ and is crazy bloated and locks you in. Instead they'd hire someone and that person would work with them to deliver exactly what they need and that solution would last for decades and the eventual off the shelf software that r…
You just have to target the right market segments. Large enterprise firms either have in-house teams or contracts with big enterprise-scale providers, so don't do this a lot, and tiny mom-and-pops tend to use off-the-shelf SaaS, and don't have the budget or internal skillset to manage these kinds of projects.
But there are many medium-scale businesses that are structured enough to have specialized use cases that the off-the-shelf stuff isn't optimized for, and which have enough cash to invest in custom solutions.
I was upset with YouTube ads, so I made my own client. It is a Vue frontend that talks to a Supabase backend. The database has a list of channel IDs, and a serverless endpoint makes a request to the YouTube API to get a list of videos and returns them back to be displayed in a chronologically ordered list as embedded videos as to avoid ads. It could be configured for others to use, but I haven’t created a signup page…
This is genuinely cool, but, just curious, why not use an ad-blocker like uBlock?